St. Martins churchyard  

Family history enquiries

• Please note the church only holds on-site fairly recent complete registers of burials and marriages.
• Burials information to 1900 are held in www.findmypast.co.uk
• Burials info from 1813 to 1963 are on microfiche at Shropshire Archives (contact the Shropshire Archives at www.shropshirearchives.org.uk . They are in Shrewsbury)
• Burials info from 1963 onwards are generally at church. 
• Monuments and headstones were mapped and catalogued in 1984 and from that we have lists in alphabetical order to help you find any marked grave up to that date. Unmarked graves will require finding reference codes from old registers in order to start a more complex location process.
• There is a fee we may well charge for searching in the registers that we have in church.

Churchyard Regulations 2026

Please note Churchyard regulations have changed in 2026 - please see the "Burial arrangements" tab under "Contact Us" for them.

Churchyard Regulations - grassing the ground in front of headstones: A note from the Wardens: In a 2018 edition of Village Life, we published our Churchyard Regulations, as shown above. The Parochial Church Council (PCC) would like to reassure those people who have existing graves in the churchyard that the 1st October 2018 date mentioned (for grassing over the ground in front of headstones) is the long-term aim, for the reasons mentioned in the article. Please note the Regulations mentioned apply straightaway to future new burials and memorials. Please contact the St Martins Church Warden(s) if you have any enquiries about this. Thank you. Warden: John Keighley, 07971 465651 mansekeighleys@btinternet.com  Warden: Position vacant